- Spleen and Ideal
Infobox Album |
Name = Spleen and Ideal
Type =Album
Artist =Dead Can Dance
Released =
September 1 ,1986
Recorded = September - November 1985
Genre = GothicWorld music
Neoclassical
Length = 38:11
Label =4AD Records
Producer =Brendan Perry ,Lisa Gerrard ,John A. Rivers
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:r69ss35ba3bg link]
Last album = "Dead Can Dance"
(1984)
This album = "Spleen and Ideal"
(1985)
Next album = "Within the Realm of a Dying Sun "
(1987)"Spleen and Ideal" is the second album recorded by
Dead Can Dance , released in 1986. A rather etheral form of gothic music, similar to the origins in their debut album, "Dead Can Dance", and followed a moreworld music and neoclassical oriented content, with lyrics based on the writings ofCharles Baudelaire andThomas de Quincey .Track listing
# "De Profundis (Out of the Depths of Sorrow)" – 4:00
# "Ascension" – 3:05
# "Circumradiant Dawn" – 3:17
# "The Cardinal Sin" – 5:29
# "Mesmerism" – 3:53
# "Enigma of the Absolute" – 4:13
# "Advent" – 5:19
# "Avatar" – 4:35
# "Indoctrination (A Design for Living)" – 4:16
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